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March 18, 2021

"The Counter Extremism Project interviewed 67 genocide survivors, many of whom said they were abused or assaulted by western ISIS recruits. In one case, a Yazidi woman describes the involvement of British extremist Siddhartha Dhar, a former bouncy...

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March 17, 2021

"German right-wing extremists have organized music festivals and martial arts events to which thousands of extremists from a dozen countries have traveled. According to the Counter Extremism Project, events such as these have played a key role in the...

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March 17, 2021

"German right-wing extremists have organized music festivals and martial arts events to which thousands of extremists from a dozen countries have traveled. According to the Counter Extremism Project, events such as these have played a key role in the...

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March 16, 2021

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "The mother and child were members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority. Their captors, members of Islamic State (IS), are said to be German and Iraqi. At the time, Islamic State recruits felt invincible. They...

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March 12, 2021

"Meanwhile, a research analyst with the US-based Counter Extremism Project, Joshua Fisher-Birch, says it is disturbing how easy it is to find the [Christchurch] mosque shooting video online."

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March 11, 2021

"Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher at the Counter Extremism Project, said 'This is a tactic that has been around for several years … It was originally used early on by Islamist extremists — ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas — but in the last five years or so...

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March 11, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "We have a problem with violent extremists in prison. We don’t know where they all are, we can’t control them adequately even if we did and we can’t change them meaningfully. The outworking of these failures...

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March 10, 2021

CEP "U.S. White Supremacy Groups" report referenced: "The Counter-Terrorism Project (n.d) alleges white supremacists subscribe to neo-Nazi beliefs that the whites are superior to other races."

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March 9, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted regarding U.S. lawmakers' proposed targeted changes to Section 230: "I think we want to take as modest of a step as possible. Give it a year or two, see how it unfolds and make adjustments."

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March 8, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "To Farid, the choice for tech companies was simple: automatically filter out the mass quantities of obviously abhorrent content using hashing technology like PhotoDNA and worry about the gray areas later."

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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